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When I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 18.
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Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L.
109.
Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved her that she did pity them.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 166.
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That shuns the hives because the bees have
stings.
The Tragedy of Locrine. (1595) III. II. 39.
Shakespeare Apocrypha.
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The True Tragedy of Richard III. (1594)
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French Lawyer. Act IV. Sc. 7.
Caret periculo qui etiam tutus cavet.
He is safe from danger who is on his guard
even when safe.
Syrus—Maxims.
Citius venit periculum, cum contemnitur.
Danger comes the sooner when it is despised.
Syrus—Maxims.
Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the
danger.
Tacitus—Annates. II. 1. 33.
Qui legit is flores et humi nascentia fraga,
Fridigus, O pueri, fugite hinc; latet anguis in
herba.
O boys, who pluck the flowers and strawberries springing from the ground, flee hence;
a cold snake lies hidden in the grass.
Vergil—Eclogues. III. 92.
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| text = <poem>Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 291.
DARING
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Who dares this pair of boots displace,
Must meet Bombastes face to face.
William B. Rhodes—Bombastes Furioso. Act
I. Sc. 4.
Wer nichts waget der darf nichts hoffen.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Schiller—Don Carlos. Same idea in Theocritus. XV. 61. Plautus—Asia. I. 3. 65.
And dar'st thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?
Scott—Marmion—Canto VI. St. 14.
I dare do all that may become a man:
Who dares do more, is none.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7. L. 47.
What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 99
Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum.
No one reaches a high position without
daring.
Syrus—Maxims.
Audendum est; fortes adjuvat ipsa Venus.
Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. ,
Ttbullus—Carmina. I. 2. 16.
DARKNESS
Dark as pitch.
Bunyan—Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. I.
The waves were dead; the tides were in their
grave,
The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;
The winds were withered in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need
Of aid from them—she was the Universe.
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Darkness which may be felt.
Exodus. X. 21.
Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking
and sinking.
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Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world.
Joaquin Miller—From Sea to Sea. St. 4.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
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Brief as the lightnirg in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and
earth,
And ere a man had power to say, Behold!
The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Sc. 1.
L. 144.
